Letting It Go HC

"Miriam Katin's debut graphic novel, the 2006 memoir We Are On Our Own,
was a unique portrait of how one family survived the Second World War.
A companion to We Are On Our Own, Letting It Go shows Miriam, now an
adult, dealing with her son Ilan's recent move to Berlin. As Miriam
struggles to accept his decision, she realizes that her hesitations
have more to do with longheld grudges than any sort of legitimate
concerns. Whereas We Are On Our Own probed Miriam's loss of faith and
talked about her experiences during the War, Letting It Go examines the
lasting trauma of surviving World War II from a very different vantage
point, focusing on Miriam's life as a middle-aged New Yorker. The
flowing, expressive style employed in We Are On Our Own has been
refined in this fullcolor masterpiece. A panel-less style lets the
story flow, with wise and funny anecdotes along the way. Katin has the
light hand of a master storyteller in this, an insightful, serious, but
wry account of the myriad ways trauma inflects daily existence, both
for survivors and for their families."